I have been waiting for someone to make a portable that size that your can just plug a thumb drive into. I have really varied and sometimes weird tastes For example Tchaikovsky's "Marche Slave" might be followed with a Muddy Water "Cross Eyed Cat" followed by "Raiz" by Simentera (Cape Verde Islands) followed by Mark Murphy doing Joni Mitchell lyrics to Charles Mingus' "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" followed by Something from Led Zep III followed by some Bob Marley then Sinatra, then Elvis, then Hillies, then Dvorak, then Luis Bonfa then Stan Getz, then Queen, then Gilberto Santa Rosa Orquesta, CSN, Pitney, Miles, Hendrix, Andrews Sisters, Beatles, Blue Cheer, Aretha Franklin, Caterina Valente, Celia Cruz, ZZ Top, Richie Cole, Charlie Parker, Buddy Guy, Beach Boys, Clovers, Dave Frishberg, Buddy Greco, Various Motown greats, Tuvan throat singing and so on. ![]() Streaming doesn't sound like a good answer for me for a couple of reasons (1) when I drive to the Everglades National Park there are a lot of places with no cell coverage and (2) I don't think I could find a streaming station with enough variety. I've got about 25,000 songs on my 160GB iPod Classic. I also have a Sansa Fuze+, which can support micro SD cards, but only up to 32GB however, they are pretty cheap, so you can use multiple cards (obviously not at the same time). I currently have a 128GB card (but looking to go to 256GB), which is more than the 160GB iPod. While you can't find it in that size, my smart phone supports micro SD cards up to 2 TB. The other thing to consider is if you have a smart phone, and are planning to upgrade, to get one that supports micro SD cards. Don't know if that's settled down yet, but that's another possibility. When Apple took them off the market, the prices skyrocketed (even used ones on eBay). When mine finally dies, assuming I can still buy the appropriate Toshiba hard drive for it (you have to get the right one for your model and edition - they're not all the same), then I'll probably try to get a little more life from mine. I've got a 160GB iPod also and love it, but it glitches occasionally as well. If you are willing, you can find sites that teach you how to buy and replace the hard disk, as well as the battery. I can buy a discontinued iPod classic on-line, but I wonder if there is something newer and better out there that doesn't need iTunes or a 3rd party replacement. So I'm looking for a pocket sized mp3 player with an earphone jack that has a huge hard drive. Fortunately I have them all backed up on my hard drive. I have about 10,000 songs on my iPod, culled from my LP and CD collection plus some purchased mp3s. I tried Sirius, but they talk too much and there is no variety station that compares to what I have on "Radio Bob" (rock, blues, Musica Latina, Caribbean, Classical, jazz, pop, standards, world music, country, and dozens of other genres). ![]() The pop, country, and classic rock stations talk for about 20 minutes per hour and you hear the same songs every day and the same ads again and again and again. The classical station is classic lite and usually will only play single movements from old symphonies (I recall a DJ playing the 3/4 movement from Beethoven's first symphony saying "Here is one by Beethoven before he got too wild"). Too many ads, too many songs repeated, and too many songs I don't care to listen to. The radio stations around here are not what I want to listen to. I'm going to try to fix that, but in any case even if I can fix that, I'll probably need to get a new one. It's been flaky for a while, and now it tells me the database is corrupted and shows no songs. ![]() But all things have an end date, and it's near. It's even lasted longer than a car or two. It's my car radio replacement, and it's taken me from Florida to Canada and back a few times, plus it goes on all my daily errands like grocery shopping, music store trips, day trips for fun, traveling to gigs, etc. It's given me many good years of pleasure.
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